In 1856, Walt Whitman said, “A man is not a whole and complete man unless he owns a house and the ground it stands on.”
Marc D. Jonas, Eastburn & Gray
Congress passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) as a reaction to perceived disparate treatment of and discriminatory conduct directed toward religious uses in the land use arena. Some commentators opined that the purpose of this legislation was not to give a leg up to religious uses. The result in some instances, however, has been the insertion of religious institutional uses in residential neighborhoods, which has affected parking and traffic, and which neighbors contend has disrupted neighborhoods.
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